Law
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
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Legal extracts, Sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.45
Scope and Contents
Extracts from the code and digest of the canon law. On one page occurs the distich 'Some hornes doe weare and blowe them not, / Some cookowldes are and knowe yt not'.
Dates:
Sixteenth century
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Legal notebook, 1618
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.27
Scope and Contents
‘A brief compendary declaring the lawe courts or places above at London and also the officers therewith. Instruction to practise at the Comen Plees ...’; it appears to be the notebook of a practising attorney, and the latter portion of the book contains notes of charges allowed on certain proceedings. Towards the end appears ‘Φ Εδμονδ θυγθ’.
Dates:
1618
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Legal notebook, c. 1700
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.46
Scope and Contents
(1) A collection of readings, cases and arguments upon the statute of pluralities and advowsons (13 Eliz.); (2) A collection of law precedents.
Dates:
c. 1700
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Legal notes, Late seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.06.14
Scope and Contents
A notebook of various points of criminal law. It commences with the distinction between murder and manslaughter, and ends with the right of a prisoner to exercise his power of challenge.
Dates:
Late seventeenth century
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Legal notes and observations, Sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.05.33
Scope and Contents
(1) Observations on stat. 11 Hen. VII c. 20, in 11 divisions; (2) fragmentary legal notes. Bound with MS Ee.05.34, a late-medieval fragment of the register of the collegiate church of St Burien in Cornwall.
Dates:
Sixteenth century
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Legal notes and treatises, Late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.06.01
Scope and Contents
(1) The notebook of an attorney, whose name does not appear, but who probably resided in Essex. In a seventeenth-century hand. With the exception of a few references to the statutes and to reported cases, it consists of notes of actions in which the writer was engaged, in which are given the names of the plaintiff and defendant, the nature of the action, statement of the case, amount of damages, plea of the defendant, names of the witnesses on his own side (which is noted) with the points...
Dates:
Late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Legal readings, Undated
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.41
Scope and Contents
Twelve readings on various legal topics. At the beginning is 'Frowyk lector'.
Dates:
Undated
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Legal readings, Mid or late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.05.17
Scope and Contents
(1) 'De magistro Anslowe anno 32. Hen. VIII. cap. 36'; (2) 'Per magistrum Dalcocke sur le statute del avouries 21. Hen. 8'; (3) 'De mr. Cheisnall sur le statute 27. H. 8'; (4) 'De magistro Kitchin sur le statute 32. H. 8. cap. 28'.
Dates:
Mid or late sixteenth century
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Legal readings, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.46
Scope and Contents
Some of the readings are referred to the commencement of the reign of King Henry VIII.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Legal readings, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.03.07
Scope and Contents
Law readings, in various hands, on statutes from the reigns of King Henry VII, King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. The readers are John Brampston (Bramston), at whose readings Mallet and Tanfield argued; Mr Davers (or Danvers); Robert Tanfield; Thomas Mallet; and Mr Bartlett.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Legal readings, c 1619
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.50
Scope and Contents
Notes of readings delivered during the years 1602-1610, by Ley, Crue, Hubbert, Bawtry, Hitchcocke, Trefuze, Prowd, Denham, Delabere, Moore, Methwold, Diggs, Tucker and Waltham. Also 12 leaves of notes from law cases in the reigns of King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I.
Dates:
c 1619
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Legal readings, c 1639
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.51
Scope and Contents
Notes of readings by Tanfield, Warde and Mallet (1626), Bartlett, Franckline, Clarke and Jermyn (1629) and Lane, Cowpers, Townsende, Pepis, Bears and Palmer (1639). At p. 150, 'My relacon to the Benche of Mr Mallets readings' and at p. 154, 'My relacon to the Benche of Mr Bartletts readings'. Also an address to the Reader (Turner?) at the close of his lectures. The manuscript is comprised of two books, in the same handwriting, one paged 109-196 and the other 198-228; in binding, the latter...
Dates:
c 1639
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Legal readings and Magna Carta, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.06.18
Scope and Contents
(1) Readings on Magna Carta; (2) Magna Carta Edwardi I anno regni XXVIIIo; (3) legal readings, some from the reign of King Edward VI.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Legal readings and reports, Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.02.01
Scope and Contents
(1) Law readings on statutes from the reigns of King Edward II, King Henry VII and King Henry VIII. The readers are Sir Thomas Froweke (or Frowycke), one reading; John Denishill (or Densell), nine readings; 'Mr Anslowe' [Richard Onslow?], six readings; Ambrose Gilbert, seven readings; Mr Blanchard (or Blencher), 11 readings; Robert Bell, eight readings, with the names and arguments of some of the moot-men (Fleetwood, Farmer and Nicholls) also given; James Dyer, five readings; between the...
Dates:
Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
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Legal readings of Sir Francis Moore, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.03.02
Scope and Contents
Readings in the Middle Temple, 5 James I, upon the statute 43 Eliz. I c. 7, an act to redress the misemployment of lands, etc., given to charitable uses, in eight divisions. Prefixed to them is ‘My speache at the beginninge’. These readings appear to be throughout in the handwriting of the author. At the beginning of the volume are two leaves of notes by Moore, in which he says he ‘began his readings on Mondaye, 3o August 1607, anno 5o Jac., and ended them the 14 August, in respect the...
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.51
Scope and Contents
Reports on cases in the King's Bench and other courts between the dates 'Paschæ 34 Eliz.' and 'Ter. Trinitat. 14 Jacobi'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.64
Scope and Contents
Reports of cases adjudged chiefly in the King's Bench, 28-30 Eliz I.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Legal reports, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.48
Scope and Contents
'Reports in the King's Bench', 3 Chas. I. In the same handwriting as MS Dd.12.49.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.49
Scope and Contents
'Reports in the King's Bench', 4 Chas. I. In the same handwriting as MS Dd.12.48.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.61
Scope and Contents
Reports of cases adjudged in the King's Bench, 8-13 Chas. I. There are many blank leaves. A note on the flyleaf reads 'Most of these cases are reported in Cro. Car.'
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.42
Scope and Contents
(1) 'Reports of Hilary Term, 15 Jas. I.' (2) 'Reports in B. R. in Mich. and Hill. 20 Jas. I.' The volume contains many cases not reported in Croke.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.46
Scope and Contents
The reports are of the following terms: Mich. 4. Car. I; Hil. 4. Car. I; Pas. 5. Car. I; Trin. 5. Car. I; Mich. 5. Car. I; Hil. 5. Car. I; Trin. 6. Car. I; Mich. 6. Car. I; Hil. 6. Car. I; Pasc. 7. Car. I; Trin. 7. Car I.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.13.24
Scope and Contents
(1) Moot cases, in number 313, stated; (2) a report of the judgement and part of the arguments of 'Shellies' case, addressed to the right honourable Sir Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst, 1581; (3) reports of cases, chiefly in the reigns of King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I.
Dates:
Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Early seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.13.28
Scope and Contents
Reports of cases adjudged in the court of wards in the reign of King James I.
Dates:
Early seventeenth century
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Legal reports, Late sixteenth or seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.18
Scope and Contents
Reports of cases in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Dates:
Late sixteenth or seventeenth century
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